In this article we’ll remove the interior of the car, so pay close attention to what’s going on here, and the car will really begin to show progress on the restoration, it’s no problem to do the restoration work if you pay close attention to every step along the way, and you can learn a lot about your car.

First; as usual I’m going to have you get a box to store things in, this is a vital step, after you get the box label it interior, you’ll need more then one box for this part of the tear down, so get ready, also make sure that you have plastic bags to put the small parts in, the bag & tag is very important.

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In this article we’ll remove the doors and hinges from the car, if you’ve never done this take pictures of the doors and hinges before you remove them, and make 100% sure that you have a friend there to help you with this part, the door are not light, you can’t do it yourself.

OK first we’ll open both doors and look for wires that might run from inside the car, to the doors, if you find any track them down and remove them first, now for the door panels, we need to remove these before we can take the doors and hinges off of the car.

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In the last article, we left off with removing the inner fender wells, now we’ll move on to the fenders of the car, this is not hugely technical, just a little common sense will get you through this step of the tear down, now we’ll get right to it.

First we’ll remove the hood from the car, usually help in place by four bolts on the bottom of the hood, tow bolts on the left, and two on the right, we’ll begin by making sure that you have a friend there to help you with this part of the tear down, so you don’t damage your car, or yourself.

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Now I realize that I have done an article of this type once before, so sorry to those of you who have seen it already, the question has been asked again, so I guess people really want to know the answer, I’ll try to keep on track, and remember to do the follow up articles that accompany this one.

Now that we have the pleasantries out of the way, let’s get right down to business here guys, and girls, this will of course be a condensed version of the real idea again, at this point we’ll assume that you have already done a visual inspection of the car, and you have a decent idea of what your looking at.

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